Solomon Kleinsmith

Foreign policy is one of those areas of political thought that doesn't neatly fall along the one dimensional red/blue map of the political spectrum in our country. -Solomon Kleinsmi...

The problem isn't Wall Street. These people are protesting at the wrong place entirely. The problem is K Street, the capital of special interest lobby groups in Washington, DC. -Sol...

Disasters used to be one of the things that weren't used as political footballs, but now almost nothing is sacrosanct. This is much like how the filibuster used to be a weapon of last...

Shortsighted action on fiscal issues has been standard practice for both the Democratic and Republican parties for over a generation, and it is directly responsible for the fiscal tra...

Regular people not being as active as those who dominate the two major parties is one of those chicken and the egg problems. -Solomon Kleinsmith, It's A Free Country blogger.

Businesses don't need more capital, in fact capital is very cheap right now. The problem is not that labor isn't cheap. The problem is that businesses don't need any more workers to k...

there are some major political incentives for Republicans to not act, both on ideological grounds, as well as strategic. If the economy recovers faster after this bill is passed, I’d ...

Mark Warner knows that even if the supercommittee cuts the $1.5 trillion is has been tasked to cut, it just plain isn't enough. We need to lower long-term entitlement spending and get...

While Obama didn't have the foresight to lead on this, he did have the common sense to come down on the right side of history in the end. For that he deserves some praise. -Solomon ...

Between segments that might feed you a bit of actual unspun information about the goings on in the world, it was more accurately described as thinly veiled talking points walking arou...

S&P deserves a lot of scorn for lax ratings of what were later shown to be toxic assets, but it's hypocritical to say they should have been more honest then, while saying our country ...

Common sense ideas like this, on how we can in one fell swoop, make the tax system more fair, cut deficit spending and stimulate the economy where it needs the stimulation are exactly...

Americans Elect has two very specific goals. They're going to get ballot qualified in all 50 states, and then put together an online system where millions of Americans can directly de...

The Magical Thinking that the politicians have been feeding the American people, that we can get more from the government than we collectively give in taxes, is now being exposed for ...

I just don't understand how anyone can justify putting themselves in the column that would prefer default, a loss of our triple A credit rating and an all but assured double dip reces...

The GOP clearly won this fight. But they did so in an amazingly irresponsible manner, much like winning a game of chicken by letting go of the wheel and assuming the other side will s...

He's tight-lipped with the media, has a populist manner, swagger, he seems to be flush with luck, and is consistently underestimated by opponents he has crushed on his way up the poli...

One potential silver lining of the economic calamity that could come from a government default could be an 'I'm MAD AS HELL, and I'm not going to take it anymore!' moment, leading to ...

Everyone knows the cut, cap and balance is a political play. No sane observer thinks it has any chance of passing, and yet Coburn chooses to personally attack everyone who is against ...

Being a stalwart supporter of gay marriage does not change the fact that is has no chance of passing in most states right now. The only choice available is whether gay rights activist...